Accused with a man Attempt to kill Last year, President Donald Trump returned to court this week in South Florida, a federal judge asked him to represent himself, as prosecutors tried to stop him from presenting irrelevant evidence during the trial.
Ryan Ruth The court-appointed federal public guards on Thursday asked to take off the case, saying that he refused to make repeated efforts to meet his team.
Separately, prosecutors trying the case prosecution before the September trial asked a judge that he would ask to meet the introduced evidence of Routh’s previous writing, which could incorrectly affect the gamblers. The judge was planning to listen to the argument on that case on Friday.
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Judge allows Ryan Ruth to represent himself
US District Judge Ellen cannon signed on Thursday Ryan Ruth Request to represent himself during his trial but said that the court -appointed lawyers need to remain as a lawyer to standby.
The judge told Ruth that he believes that it was a bad idea to represent himself for Routh, but he would not be separated. Routh, who, after earning his GED certificate, described the limit of his education as a two -year college, told Cannon that he would understand and be ready.
On Friday, the judge was listening to a resolution from the prosecutors to limit unrelated evidence in the trial. The prosecutors wrote, “As the court knows, Routh is very clear in the desire to convert this test into a circus, where his alleged good character is weighed against the President,” the prosecutors wrote.
Routh is the freight leader of a self-style
Ruth, 59, was a northern Carolina construction worker, who had moved to Hawaii in recent years. A self-proclaimed leader, Routh, spoke to anyone who hears about his dangerous, sometimes violent plans, to struggle themselves worldwide, witnesses have told the Associated Press.
In the early days War in UkraineRuth tried to recruit soldiers from Afghanistan, Moldova and Taiwan to fight the Russians. In his original Greensboro of Northern Carolina, he arrested 2002 for abolishing a traffic stop and barricading himself with a completely automatic machine gun and “weapon of mass destruction”, which became explosive with a 10 -inch long fuse.
In 2010, the police searched Ruth, a warehouse -owned warehouse and found more than 100 stolen items from power tools and building supply to kayak and spa tub. In both hooliganism cases, the judges gave the Routh either probation or suspended.
Routh is accused of attempt to murder
Officials said Ruth tried to kill Trump, who was running for his second term as the GOP presidential candidate last September, while he played golf at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Routh is facing five hooliganism in Federal Court in Fort Pierce, Florida. They include an attempt to kill a chief presidential candidate; To hold a gun to a violent offense; Attacking a federal officer; Falia in the possession of a gun and the ammunition; And capture a gun with a forgotten serial number.
The judge chaired the classified documents of Trump
If the name of the judge seems familiar, it is because he presided over another high-profile case related to Trump- Classified document case,
Last year, the cannon biased with Trump’s lawyers, who said that the special lawyer had filed allegations, illegally appointed by the US Department of Justice. The cannon’s decision stopped a criminal case that it was filed at the time, widely considered the most dangerous of all the legal threats faced by the President before returning to the office in the last January.
The cannon was a former federal prosecutor nominated in the bench by Trump in 2020.
Trump was not hurt in the incident
He was fine. The US secret service agents deployed some holes, from where Trump was playing golf, saw the muzzle of the AK-style rifle sticking through the bush, which line the course, about 400 yards away. An agent opened fire, and the gunman dropped the rifle and ran into an SUV, leaving the fireplace behind with two backpacks, the scope used for the target and a Gopro camera. He was later stopped by law enforcement in a neighboring county.
The attempt to murder last September was only a few weeks after Trump’s Pennsylvania escaped from another attempt on his life.
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Mike Schneider, Associated Press